Important Collector's Watches, Pocket...
Geneva, Nov 11, 2007
LOT 29
"Bezel-Wound Minute-Repeater & Perpetual Calendar" Antoine Preziuso, Geneve, No. 003. Made in a very small series in 1991. Very fine and extremely rare, large, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with perpetual calendar, moon phases, lunar calendar, Preziuso's patented bezel winding mechanism for the repeater and an 18K yellow gold Antoine Preziuso buckle.
CHF 70,000 - 85,000
EUR 42,000 - 50,000 / USD 60,000 - 70,000
C. Three-body, polished, stepped curved bezel, undercurved band, "Maltese" lugs, transparent back, sapphire crystals. D. Champagne with applied yellow gold baton indexes and outer baton minute divisions, subsidiary dials for the date, days of the week, months and leap-year indication, aperture for the moon phases with lunar calendar on the border. Blackened gold "Breguet" hands. M. 12''', rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, stamped with the Seal of Geneva Quality Mark, 32 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, shock absorber, swan-neck micrometer regulator, repeating on gongs activated by rotating the bezel anti-clockwise. Dial and movement signed. Diam. 39 mm. Thickness 11 mm.
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Grade: |
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Case: 3 |
Good |
Movement: 2 |
Very good |
Dial: 2-01 |
Very good HANDS Original |
Notes
Antoine Preziuso was born in 1957. On graduating from the Geneva Watchmaking School, he started work for Patek Philippe in 1978. Two years later, in 1980, he was approached by Antiquorum to open its first in-house restoration of collectors? watches. 1989 Commissioned by Breguet to develop and launch production of its minuterepeater watches with perpetual calendar. 1991 Antoine Preziuso developed his first minute-repeater watch with perpetual calendar (the present watch). A patented system with rotating bezel winds the striking mechanism. The watch was awarded the Poinçon de Genève. 1996 Exhibited for the first time at Basel, with the Horological Academy of Independent Creators (A.H.C.I.). 2000 The workshop became a full-fledged company, Antoine Preziuso Genève, with its own team of dedicated professionals. 2002 Presentation, at Basel, of the largest collection of tourbillon watches: six watches in all including one sculpted in meteorite, a world-first that would become the symbol of Antoine Preziuso Genève. Antoine Preziuso worked with Harry Winston on Opus Two, creating twelve tourbillon watches and a further twelve tourbillon watches with calendar display, certain of which were set with diamonds. 2005 Antoine Preziuso Genève commemorated twenty-five years of independent watchmaking with the 3volution triple tourbillon. 2007 Presentation, in April, of the first two models in the Fine Jewellery collection incorporating a complicated watch mechanism.